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Aslib Biosciences Group Annual Conference

Old wine in new bottles: electronic developments, archives and digitisation

         23rd May 2002, 09.45-16.30
        Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London


With publishers and institutions now providing information electronically,
many are looking to archive data to provide a sometimes vital resource for
biological and biomedical research. The conference will look at some of
these initiatives and the technologies which make archiving and
digitisation one of the vital areas for today's information professional.

**Programme**

09.45  Registration & coffee
10.15  Introduction and welcome. Carol Gokce, ABG Chair
10.30  Matt Cockerill, BioMed Central. Making open access a reality -
       developing efficient online   tools for publishing and archiving
       peer-reviewed research.
11.10  Steve Cafferty, Natural History Museum. Virtual herbaria: electronic
       access to 18th Century botanical collections.
11.55  Natasha Robshaw, BioMed Central. Images.MD.The online
       encyclopaedia of medical images; Faculty of 1000 - the online
       scientific literature
       awareness service
12.35  Lunch
14.00  Simon Inger, Simon Inger & Associates. Linking, SFX and more
14.40  John Taylor, The Royal Society. JSTOR:unlocking history
15.10  Tea
15.30  Karen Hunter, Elsevier.  Digital Archiving: One Publisher's
       Perspective - 7Tb and Growing
16.00  Susan Snell, Natural History Museum. Arachne's web: scientists
      and their papers on the Internet.
16.30  Closing remarks


**Cost**
£60 ABG members; £70 non members; £25 unwaged (including lunch and
refreshments)

If you would like to join us and learn more about this topic, please contact:
Nigel Robinson, ABG Meetings Secretary, c/o BIOSIS UK, 54 Micklegate,
York YO1 6WF (Tel: 01904 642816; fax: 01904 612793; email:
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To avoid disappointment early booking is advised as places are strictly
limited.

**BOOKING FORM**

Aslib Biosciences Group Annual Conference
Old wine in new bottles: electronic developments, archives and digitisation

Please return this form no later than 10th May 2002 to:
Nigel Robinson, ABG Meetings Secretary, c/o BIOSIS UK, 54 Micklegate,
York YO1 6WF
(Tel: 01904 642816; fax: 01904 612793; email:
[log in to unmask])

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